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Yes. It's a mass manufactured consumer product with gaming as it's intended purpose
That's a console.
Consoles typically lock the player into their ecosystem, though. You don't have to use steam to play games on the deck.
They don't have to though, that's just what most consoles do.
What's the GP32?
What's the NGage?
What's the Ouya?
What are they though?
Are they
?
Getting an Xbox into developer mode, booting retro arch, really whatever you want then doing literally whatever you want with it has never been easier. The 360 was far more difficult and continues to be difficult to hack and mod in meaningful ways. The series consoles you can crack open in like 30 minutes with an article and a YouTube video.